Play a Sound with Python [duplicate]

Question

What's the easiest way to play a sound file (.wav) in Python? By easiest I mean both most platform independent and requiring the least dependencies. pygame is certainly an option, but it seems overkill for just sound.

Answer 1

For Windows, you can use winsound. It's built in

import winsound  winsound.PlaySound('sound.wav', winsound.SND_FILENAME) 

You should be able to use ossaudiodev for linux:

from wave import open as waveOpen from ossaudiodev import open as ossOpen s = waveOpen('tada.wav','rb') (nc,sw,fr,nf,comptype, compname) = s.getparams( ) dsp = ossOpen('/dev/dsp','w') try:   from ossaudiodev import AFMT_S16_NE except ImportError:   from sys import byteorder   if byteorder == "little":     AFMT_S16_NE = ossaudiodev.AFMT_S16_LE   else:     AFMT_S16_NE = ossaudiodev.AFMT_S16_BE dsp.setparameters(AFMT_S16_NE, nc, fr) data = s.readframes(nf) s.close() dsp.write(data) dsp.close() 

(Credit for ossaudiodev: Bill Dandreta http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2004-October/288905.html)